"the word means. This play and Ben Jonson's play ""The Alchemist"" (1610) are typically cited as the first usage of the word in publication. ""The Alchemist"" was printed first, but the debate about the date of the play's composition makes it unclear which was the first scripted use of the word, which is much older. The earliest recorded performance of the play was recorded by Simon Forman, the Elizabethan ""figure caster"" or astrologer, who noted in his journal on 11 May 1611 that he saw ""The Winter's Tale"" at the Globe playhouse. The play was then performed in front of"
"man's money. Internal references indicate that the play was written for performance at Blackfriars; ironically, given its initial scenario, plague forced the company to tour, and ""The Alchemist"" premiered at Oxford in 1610, with performance in London later that year. Its success may be indicated by its performance at court in 1613 and again in 1623. Evidence of a more ambiguous kind is presented by the case of Thomas Tomkis's ""Albumazar"", performed for King James I at Cambridge in 1615. A tradition apparently originating with Dryden held that Jonson had been influenced by Tomkis's academic comedy. Dryden may have mentioned"
"The Alchemist (short story) ""The Alchemist"" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1908, when Lovecraft was 17 or 18, and first published in the November 1916 issue of the ""United Amateur"". The story is recounted by the protagonist, Count Antoine de C-, in the first person. Hundreds of years ago, Antoine's noble ancestor was responsible for the death of a dark wizard, Michel Mauvais. The wizard's son, Charles le Sorcier, swore revenge on not only him but all his descendants, cursing them to die on reaching the age of 32. The protagonist"
"formed by subscription from wealthy sponsors, including the Prince of Wales, to support Handel's productions at the theatre. Under this sponsorship, Handel conducted a series of more than 25 of his original operas, continuing until 1739 Handel was also a partner in the management with Heidegger from 1729 to 1734, and he contributed to incidental music for theatre, including for a revival of Ben Jonson's ""The Alchemist"", opening on 14 January 1710. On the accession of George I in 1714, the theatre was renamed the King's Theatre and remained so named during a succession of male monarchs who occupied the"
"of Chapman's play gave an impetus to the comic device; disguise plays were produced frequently in its aftermath. The anonymous ""Look About You"" (printed 1600), ""The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green"" (1600) by Henry Chettle and John Day, ""Westward Ho"" and ""Northward Ho"" (c. 1604-5) by Thomas Dekker and John Webster, and Ben Jonson's ""Every Man in His Humour"" (1598), ""Volpone"" (1606) and ""The Alchemist"" (1610) are among the various examples that can be cited. The Blind Beggar of Alexandria The Blind Beggar of Alexandria is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by George Chapman. It was the"
"Ben Jonson Benjamin Jonson (""c"". 11 June 1572 – ""c"". 16 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet, actor, and literary critic, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours. He is best known for the satirical plays ""Every Man in His Humour"" (1598), ""Volpone, or The Fox"" (c. 1606), ""The Alchemist"" (1610) and ""Bartholomew Fair"" (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry; he is generally regarded as the second most important English playwright during the reign of James VI and I after William Shakespeare. Jonson was a classically"
"Alan Cox, with Jeanne Hepple as the Wise Woman, Rebecca Palmer as Luce 2, Alexis Karne as Luce 1, and Katarina Olsson as Gratiana; James Wallace played Chartley, James Chalmers played Boyster, and Jean-Paul van Cauwelaert was Haringfield, with Bryan Robson as Sir Harry and Liam McKenna as Sir Boniface. Writing in 1888, John Addington Symonds argued that despite the play's superficial resemblance to Ben Jonson's comic masterpiece ""The Alchemist"" (1610), insofar as it also focuses on ""the quackeries and impostures of a professed fortune-teller"", nevertheless ""to mention it in the same breath"" as the latter work ""would be ridiculous."""
"John Underwood (actor) John Underwood (died October 1624) was an early 17th-century actor, a member of the King's Men, the theatrics company of William Shakespeare. Underwood began as a boy player with the Children of the Chapel, and was cast in that company's productions of Ben Jonson's ""Cynthia's Revels"" (1600) and ""The Poetaster"" (1601). In 1608 or soon after, he joined the King's Men along with William Ostler, another former member of the Chapel Children troupe. Underwood was a member of the cast of the King's Men's production of Jonson's ""The Alchemist"" in 1610, and was in the casts of"
"""Hieronimo's old cloak, ruff, and hat"" in ""The Alchemist"" (1610), and quotes from the play in ""Every Man in His Humour"" (1598), Act I, scene iv. In ""Satiromastix"" (1601), Thomas Dekker suggests that Jonson, in his early days as an actor, himself played Hieronimo. Allusions continue for decades after the play's origin, including references in Thomas Tomkis's ""Albumazar"" (1615), Thomas May's ""The Heir"" (1620), and as late as Thomas Rawlins's ""The Rebellion"" (c. 1638). In modern times, T. S. Eliot quoted the title and the play in his poem ""The Waste Land"". The play also appears in Orhan Pamuk's 2002"
"William Ostler William Ostler (died 16 December 1614) was an actor in English Renaissance theatre, a member of the King's Men, the company of William Shakespeare. Ostler started out as a boy player in the Children of the Chapel troupe; he was cast in their 1601 production of Ben Jonson's ""The Poetaster"", with Nathan Field and John Underwood, two other future King's Men. Ostler, like Underwood, joined the King's Men most likely in 1608 or soon after. Ostler was cast in their 1610 production of Jonson's ""The Alchemist,"" as well as subsequent productions of ""Bonduca,"" ""The Captain,"" and ""Valentinian."" He"
"play ""L'Astrologo"" by Giambattista della Porta, a work first published in Venice in 1606. Tomkis's play also shows debts to Ben Jonson's ""The Alchemist"" and Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"" (the character name Trincalo in Tomkis's play derives from Trinculo in Shakespeare's). When John Dryden wrote the Prologue for the 1668 revival of ""Albumazar"", he got the relationship between the Tomkis and Jonson plays backwards, and accused Jonson of borrowing from Tomkis. In addition to purely literary sources, Tomkis also exploited Galileo Galilei's revolutionary book on his astronomical discoveries, ""Sidereus Nuncius"", ""The Starry Messenger"" (1610). Galileo referred to the telescope as the"
"The Tempest The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1610–1611, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his machinations bring about the revelation of"
"Shakespeare's ""The Winter's Tale"". This play and Ben Jonson's play ""The Alchemist"" (1610) are typically cited as the first use of the word in publication (Nashe's ""Merrie Ballad"" was not published until 1899). John Wilmot, the 17th century English libertine, published his poem "" Signor Dildo"" in 1673. During the Parliamentary session of that year, objections were raised to the proposed marriage of James, Duke of York, brother of the King and heir to the throne, to Mary of Modena, an Italian Catholic princess. An address was presented to King Charles on 3 November, foreseeing the dangerous consequences of marriage"
"this might (or might not) have been the actor. The man who definitely was the actor was with the King's Men in 1610 and 1611; he was part of the cast of their productions of Jonson's ""The Alchemist"" (1610) and """" (1611). In the latter year he left the King's Men for the Lady Elizabeth's Men; he became a sharer in that company and signed a bond with impresario Philip Henslowe on 29 August 1611, along with other actors who included Joseph Taylor and John Rice, two King's Men of the future. Ecclestone acted with that company in their production"
"""The Duchess of Malfi"" (ca. 1614). Lowin's prowess as an actor is displayed by a remarkable fact about the plays in which he acted. In the hundreds of plays, and the thousands of roles in them, that date to the 1580–1610 era, there are only about twenty roles of 800 lines or longer. Only three plays have ""two"" roles of this scale: Shakespeare's ""Othello"" and Jonson's ""Volpone"" and ""The Alchemist."" Burbage played the starring role in the King's Men's productions of these plays—;and Lowin apparently was the man who seconded him (just as Lowin is known to have played Bosola"
"16th century savant and alchemist was probably suggested to him by the Comte Amédée de Ripart-Monclar, to whom it was dedicated. The publication had some commercial and critical success, being noticed by Wordsworth, Dickens, Landor, J. S. Mill and the already famous Tennyson. It is a monodrama without action, dealing with the problems confronting an intellectual trying to find his role in society. It gained him access to the London literary world. As a result of his new contacts he met Macready, who invited him to write a play. ""Strafford"" was performed five times. Browning then wrote two other plays,"
"Alchemist"". He also played Cacafogo in Fletcher's ""Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"". Clun may have reached the peak of his career in the title role in Fletcher's ""The Humorous Lieutenant""; the King's Company played that drama for twelve days straight when they opened the lavish new Theatre Royal in Drury Lane in 1663. If so, his peak did not last for long: Clun was killed during a robbery near Kentish Town on the night of 2 August 1664. He was wounded in the arm by the thieves, bound hand and foot, and left in a ditch to bleed"
"generally been unconvinced by Bowers' assignment of the play to Randolph. Some have seen signs of the influence of James Shirley in the play, noting resemblances to Shirley's ""The Traitor"" (1631) and ""The Young Admiral"" (1633), and have concluded that ""The Fairy Knight"" must post-date those plays. Since the MS. includes a 1658 epitaph (on the ""virtuous lady Frances Monson""), critics tend to place the authorship of the play sometime between the mid-1630s and 1658 — generally too late for Randolph, who died in 1635. Critics have also noted borrowings from Jonson's ""The Alchemist"" in ""The Fairy Knight."" The play"
"best. It was followed by ""Penthée"" (1637), ""La Mort de Seneque"" (1644), ""La Mort de Crispe"" (1645) and the ""Parasite"" (1654). He was also the author of some admirable lyrics. Three of his best plays are printed in the ""Théâtre français"" of 1737. He took his pseudonym from Tristan l'Hermite, a shadowy figure of the late Middle Ages who was provost of the marshals of the King's household under Louis XI of France. He died due to tuberculosis. François Tristan l'Hermite François l'Hermite (c. 1601 – 7 September 1655) was a French dramatist who wrote under the name Tristan l'Hermite."
"star of William Shakespeare's theatre company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men which became the King's Men on the ascension of James I in 1603. He played the title role in the first performances of many of Shakespeare's plays, including ""Hamlet"", ""Othello"", ""Richard III"", and ""King Lear"". But he was in great demand and also appeared in the plays of many of the great contemporary writers, such as Ben Jonson (the title role in ""Volpone"", and Subtle in ""The Alchemist""), John Marston (""The Malcontent""), John Webster (""The Duchess of Malfi"") and Beaumont and Fletcher (""The Maid's Tragedy""). Burbage was described as being"
"play, for the sole reason that it was the solitary cause for Planche to write the play (to install this ingenious piece of stage machinery into the stage of the Lyceum). The Vampire (play) The Vampire, formally known as ""The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles"", is a play written by James Robinson Planché. It was premiered on the London stage in 1820 as the first appearance of the vampire as an image of sophistication and nobility. James Robinson Planché (1796–1880) was an English playwright, costume designer, and a theatre antiquarian throughout the nineteenth century. Planché was born the"
"he discovers a passage with a locked door at the end. Just as he turns to leave, he hears a noise behind him and sees that the door is open and someone is standing in it. The man attempts to kill him but Antoine kills him first. His dying words reveal that he is none other than Charles, who actually managed to successfully fabricate the elixir of life, enabling him to personally fulfill the curse generation after generation. The Alchemist (short story) ""The Alchemist"" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1908, when"
"solid acceptance of theatre as a fact of city life. In 1597, the Lord Chamberlain's Men (a.k.a. the King's Men) had been denied permission to use the theatre in Blackfriars as a winter playhouse because of objections from the neighbourhood's influential residents. Some time between 1608 and 1610, the company, now the King's Men, reassumed control of the playhouse, this time without objections. Their delayed premiere on this stage within the city walls, along with royal patronage, marks the ascendance of this company in the London play-world (Gurr, 171). ""The Alchemist"" was among the first plays chosen for performance at"
"The Vampire (play) The Vampire, formally known as ""The Vampire; or, The Bride of the Isles"", is a play written by James Robinson Planché. It was premiered on the London stage in 1820 as the first appearance of the vampire as an image of sophistication and nobility. James Robinson Planché (1796–1880) was an English playwright, costume designer, and a theatre antiquarian throughout the nineteenth century. Planché was born the son of Jacques Planché and Catherine Emily Planché (whom were descendants of Huguenot refugees) on 17 February 1796 in Old Burlington St, Piccadilly, London. His mother Catherine Emily Planché home schooled"
"Armin to play. In non-Shakespearean roles, he probably played Pasarello in John Marston's ""The Malcontent""; indeed, Marston may have added the part for him when the play was produced by the King's Men. Armin appears in the cast list for Ben Jonson's ""The Alchemist""; he may have played Drugger. He is also presumed to have been the clown in George Wilkins's ""The Miseries of Enforced Marriage"". He is not named in the cast list for Jonson's ""Catiline"" (1611), and other evidence suggests that he retired in 1609 or 1610. The preface to the ""Two Maids"" quarto confides, ""I would have"
"The Alchemist (novel) The Alchemist () is a novel by Brazilian author Paulo Coelho that was first published in 1988. Originally written in Portuguese, it became a widely translated international bestseller. An allegorical novel, ""The Alchemist"" follows a young Andalusian shepherd in his journey to the pyramids of Egypt, after having a recurring dream of finding a treasure there. Over the years there have been film and theatrical adaptations of the work and musical interpretations of it. ""The Alchemist"" follows the journey of an Andalusian shepherd boy named Santiago. Believing a recurring dream to be prophetic, he asks a Romani"
"the seven metals and the method for creating the elixir. It is a short treatise broken into seven chapters, some of which are only a paragraph long: The following alchemical writings are appended to Pseudo-Bacon's tract in the 1597 edition: ""The Mirror of Alchimy"" appeared at a time when there was an explosion of interest in Bacon, magic and alchemy in England. The evidence of this is seen in popular plays of the time such as Marlowe's ""Dr. Faustus"" (c. 1588), Greene's ""Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay"" (1589), and Jonson's ""The Alchemist"" (1610). It was one of only two alchemy"
"The ""Ordinall"" gained a wide reputation in a Latin verse translation, in the 1618 ""Tripus Aureus"" of Michael Maier. The English original was included in the 1652 ""Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum"" of Elias Ashmole. Thomas Norton (alchemist) Thomas Norton (c.1433-c.1513) was an English poet and alchemist. He is known as the author of the ""Ordinal of Alchemy"" (1477), an alchemical poem of around 3000 lines. According to Jonathan Hughes, Norton was born in Colne, Wiltshire. No modern town in Wiltshire is named Colne; perhaps, as Reidy reckons, Norton was born in Colerne, Wiltshire, because this fits the description in the poem"
"a much more physical way than the script provided for. See ""The Relapse"". George Powell (playwright) George Powell (1668? – 1714) was a 17th-century London actor and playwright who was a member of the United Company. He wrote a misogynistic play called ""The Imposture Defeated; or, A Trick to Cheat the Devil"", first performed in September 1697. This play portrayed the proper treatment of an adulteress as brutal confinement and isolation from others to punish her and prevent the spread of her attitude. It is thought that this play was rushed out as a result of Mr. Powell having seen"
"man rather than a sharer, as his name is not mentioned in the original royal patent. He probably became a sharer in 1604, when the total number of sharers was likely increased to twelve. That he became important to the company fairly quickly is suggested by his appearance as himself (alongside Richard Burbage and Henry Condell) in the induction to John Marston's ""The Malcontent"". He is mentioned in the surviving cast lists of the company's productions of Ben Jonson's ""Sejanus"" (1603), ""Volpone"" (1605), ""The Alchemist"" (1610), and """" (1611), John Fletcher's ""Bonduca"" and ""Valentinian"" (both ca. 1613), and John Webster's"
"them. William Shakespeare's 1610–11 play, ""The Tempest"", uses the idea of being stranded on a desert island as a pretext for the action of the play. Prospero and his daughter Miranda are set adrift by Prospero's treacherous brother Antonio, seeking to become Duke of Milan, and Prospero in turn shipwrecks his brother and other men of sin onto the island. A Latin translation of Ibn Tufail's ""Philosophus Autodidactus"" appeared in 1671, prepared by Edward Pococke the Younger, followed by an English translation by Simon Ockley in 1708, as well as German and Dutch translations. In the late 17th century, ""Philosophus"
"Naples.) Prospero indicates that he intends to entertain them with the story of his life on the island. Prospero has resolved to break and bury his magic staff, and ""drown"" his book of magic, and in his epilogue, shorn of his magic powers, he invites the audience to set him free from the island with their applause. ""The Tempest"" is thought by most scholars to have been written in 1610–11, and is generally accepted as the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone, although some have questioned either or both assertions. Scholars also note that it is impossible to determine if"
"which he is listed as a ""principle tragedian"". This might indicate that he was a young actor in a prominent female role, perhaps Agrippina. He became a shareholder in the King's Men in 1604 when the number of shareholders was expanded to twelve. He was also cast in ""Volpone"" (1605), in which he may have been Lady Would-be; Jonson's ""The Alchemist"" (1610); """" (1611) and Beaumont and Fletcher's ""The Captain"" (c. 1612). Edmond Malone introduced the hypothesis, still current though far from certain, that Cooke as a boy actor originally played many of Shakespeare's principal female roles. Indeed, Cooke is"